From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: run-with-timer does not display message Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 13:08:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87k37e4tjw.fsf@gmail.com> <87d2d2e4ga.fsf@debian.uxu> <83bnsl5pxo.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405789775 16055 80.91.229.3 (19 Jul 2014 17:09:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:09:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 19 19:09:28 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X8Y8V-0000Hn-UA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:09:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55067 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8Y8V-0005vZ-GZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 13:09:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42326) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8Y8E-0005sy-Mv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 13:09:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8Y87-0002Mb-7q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 13:09:10 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49358) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8Y87-0002MT-0a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 13:09:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X8Y85-00005Y-Ud for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:09:01 +0200 Original-Received: from 75-119-224-253.dsl.teksavvy.com ([75.119.224.253]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:09:01 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 75-119-224-253.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:09:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-119-224-253.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:P0PSYgWEowokmOopAefOqaUcWeI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98792 Archived-At: > I don't think Stefan meant backtick-type of quoting. He meant this: >> M-: (run-with-timer 5 nil '(lambda () (message "hello"))) > ^^^^^^^^ Indeed. Of course, it's also good to avoid backquoting lambdas (typically by using lexical-binding instead), but I'm focusing on trying to kill the nasty '(lambda ...) habit that people keep reproducing all over the place because it appears in so many examples. Stefan